Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-10-29
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

OuF VeSteFh IFtp'-1ne JOURNAL
apprehends that a minority of It's
readers feel an interest in the OBJ
scrvations and incidents of little trip
westward. Hence, in Difference to the
majority, this account will be brief as
we can make it.
About 100 miles east of Chicago the
Baltimore and Ohio limited express
train, No. 5, October 9, ran into cold
rain storm, which, continuing through
ont the day, made the sojourn in that
city more unpleasant and brief than
anticipated. The first train on the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific rail
way was boarded, and Monday evening
we reached Kansas City.
An agricultural fair. a great ex-
position, the expected civic, military,
trades, and Priests of Pallas parades,
and visit of President and Mrs. Cleve-
land had already filled the city with
strangers and depots with mountains of
baggage. Tuesday and Wednesday the
throng grew steadily numerous and in
good-natured noisiness. Regular and
special trains on the eighteen railroads
centreing in the city kept pouring in
their contingents of human tide
which on Thursday, presidential day,
surged along all the populous thor
oughfares.
The civic and military parade of
Tuesday evening inaugurated the series
of nocturnal display and showed up
creditably to people who otherwise
appear to be solely engrossed in
business.
The arrival of the presidential party
Wednesday evening and the trades
procession developed the first man
Hesitation of the real magnitude of the
occasion. The train of floats repre-
senting all the leading industries was
lengthy and brilliant. There was
enough in it to surprise even Kansas
City.
There may have been elsewhere
more elaborate representations of
NEUROLOGICAL character and event than
that afforded by the first appearance
of the Priests of Pallas, but none
more splendid. From great arches of
gas light and innumerable electric
lamps a flood of radiance fell upon
the moving train. Each float reflected
some parsonage, some occurrence en-
balmed in those legendary annals
which, it has been fancfuily SAID,
"precede history" This collection
of reproductions of gods, goddesses,
divinities, heroes and heroines, and
their achievements, was gigantic
and brilliant "objeet lesson" to those
of a great concourse of witnesses who
enjoy taste for the study of pagan
fable. The designer, the builder and
the decorator, severally conceived,
constructed and finished his work in
exact accord with the most artistic
ideal. There appeared to be nothing
lacking to complete the series, nothing
wanting to show it off and no dearth h
of people to see, admire and applaud.
The JOURNAL enjoyed two excellent
views of Mr.. and Mrs. Cleveland, the
first at the Coates house, where they
took the carriage for the first drive.
and, second, at the end of the second
drive, from a window of the Rialto
Club building, near the Custom House.
The current cuts of the pair, now so
familiar, afford as fair representations
of each as can be made by the en-
graver. We must disagree, however,
with every printed report we have seen
of their appearance in Kansas city.
The president, as a tender girl would
say, "always looks cross" but in Kan
sas city he appeared cross-and mad.
Mrs. Cleveland, natively pretty and
amiabie, carried frightened look.
The crowd everywhere, as We have
said, was large, dense, immovable. At
the Custom House, where the great
reception was held, it was immense
and vociferous.
But like all other red-letter DAYS it
passed and the rush to get home oc-
casioned almost as much confusion
among visitors rs the influx. The
JOURNAL found this out as late as
Saturday evening pending a visit to
Warrensburg, Mo-, ria Missouri Pa
cific railroad. Our ticket for a first
class seat secured square foot of
space in n coach which should have
been labeled third class standing
room only" for nearly the entire dis.
tance, 65 miles.
However. here we found the farmer,
lawyer, or lawyer-farmer, James NJ
Shepherd. a gentleman of the old